IT Systems Engineer Resume Holland Michigan - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Seeking a career as a Linux sysadmin in a team environment, where I can showcase and build upon my skill set.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

IT Systems Engineer

Confidential, Holland Michigan

Sole IT staff responsible for almost all aspects of over 33 PCs (25 Ubuntu/Linux, 6 Windows, 1 Mac), 41 servers (36 Ubuntu/Linux, 3 Windows, 2 PFSense/BSD), 6 switches, and 1 wireless access point.
Migrated user desktops from Windows to Linux to reduce licensing costs, and increase stability and security, while creating a solid deployment scheme to decrease deployment time while ensuring a uniform environment.
Deployed over 30 servers with a strong focus on free and open - source software, virtualization, high availability and redundancy to minimize business impact of downtime, almost completely building the company infrastructure from the ground up at our office and co-location.
Migrated co-located servers from Chicago to Grand Rapids while minimizing business impact.
Created several different automated deployment systems for servers and desktop, using customized ISOs, scripts and Salt to ensure a uniform environment and reduce human error.
Balanced using cloud services where appropriate, but focusing on keeping most things in-house
Set up Opsview (Nagios) monitoring server to monitor almost all hardware, including servers, printers, network devices and cloud services to notify me of issues before they could impact business and reduce troubleshooting time.

Junior/IT Systems Analyst

Confidential, Holland Michigan

Sole IT staff responsible for almost all aspects of over 85 PCs, 130 users, 120 telephones, 110 cell phones, 20 printers, 9 servers, 17 switches, and 4 wireless access points in an Active Directory environment from .
Oversaw an annual expense budget of approximately $40,000 using Ariba, then SRM (SAP), purchasing systems for procurement of all IT hardware and software at the Holland factory.
Helped manage one complete network infrastructure upgrade and a second, smaller one to provide VOIP.
Migrated all computers to a common software platform.
Moved older servers to newer, shared hardware as virtual machines to ease hardware migrations and optimize disaster recovery, including setting up HA/DRS cluster in VMWare vCenter.
Set up Nagios network and server monitoring server to alert me of any infrastructure problems before they can affect business continuity.
Helped develop training program and teach Microsoft Office to users of all computer skill levels.

Owner/Technician

Confidential, Jenison Michigan

As a freelance IT technician, customers have included: a medical practice, several small businesses, churches, and individuals. Past projects have included: troubleshooting errors, removing spyware/viruses, installing network hardware, minor web programming and fixing printers.